A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently devised a method allowing them to create large amounts of a ...

Tellurium is not an abundant metal. Present at about 1 ppb in the Earth's crust, it is less abundant than gold, platinum or the so-called 'rare-earth' elements. So why should one care about such ...

The high relative abundance of these tellurium isotopes gives tellurium the greater relative atomic mass. The atomic number of tellurium is 52 and the atomic number of iodine is 53, so these ...

Jennifer Goff has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Geosciences to support research into the environmental impact of tellurium, a metalloid ...

Rio Tinto plans to spend nearly $3 million on a facility to recover tellurium, a critical mineral used in solar panels, from its Kennecott mine near Salt Lake City, Utah. And First Solar said it ...